Thank you so much for uploading this. I was born after the grade shut down, and growing up in Spartanburg, it has been a area of keen interest. Any video I can find of operations over the grade are priceless to me. Thank you so much!

👍 That Southern paint scheme 👍Those C39-8's? That boxy look, real U-Boats, that great U Boat sound 👍Long hood running! Yes! Thanks for this great video

This is cool seeing trains form the 1990 in 2022 grate video

I chased trains up and down the grade at Saluda on a railfanning trip in the spring of 1994. This is exactly how I remember it. Thanks for sharing!

Great video! I was at Saluda around the 4th of July and went down to the bottom of the grade to see the current condition. It was completely overgrown with weeds, and trees are starting to come up on the grade. If you put enough bug spray on, and bring a machete, you can get to the old concrete phone box that you see across from the switch to the escape track. Back in the day, Southern railroad had a special engineer that would post at the phone box to guide locomotives up and down the grade safely.

You know the grade is tough when a single engine can only handle five cars uphill in notch 8.

@coromark

6 ай бұрын

And a decently powerful one at that. It's a C39-8, rated for 3900 hp

imagine the pressure on the couplings in the front

Looks like you've been up and down Pearson's Falls Rd. a few times...me too. Love the pictures. I doubt those rusty rails will ever see a train again. :(

@MASTERCHIEF1062

2 жыл бұрын

dito, and those wash outs are getting worse sadly to say, it'd take a full overhaul of the line to bring it back into shape.

@ljones121

2 жыл бұрын

@@MASTERCHIEF1062 I wouldn't say never. NS held onto the grade for a reason. Yea it would be expensive but not impossible it's sort of like union pacific and Tennessee pass if economics dictate it they'll throw money at it

@MASTERCHIEF1062

2 жыл бұрын

@@ljones121 maybe.

@anb7408

9 ай бұрын

16 miles of this line, including the grade, has been sold to a rails-trails nonprofit consortium. Saluda Grade in its rail form is sadly finished.

@coromark

6 ай бұрын

​@@anb7408unfortunate, but ultimately understandable

Thanks for putting this up.

Thank you! For the great video and slide show.

Thanks for sharing, this is an awesome video. I've seen several trains on Saluda but never caught a radio controlled car with mid train helpers climbing the grade. Do you know if the train with 4 engines was a power mover or if the crew died on the law & they sent another crew with 2 engines to finish the run. I actually witnessed that seneriro once at melrose.

You sir, earned a notification.

@560productions7

2 жыл бұрын

What does that mean?

@BlueRailz

2 жыл бұрын

@@560productions7 apparently there's a "Bell-like" icon. But, if you click it, you can be notified when someone post a new video.

Awsome

And a train of Silversides!

isnt that mid train unit one of the first examples of a dpu

@brianbooher7318

2 жыл бұрын

It in all reality is but it's a remote controlled unit like a rc car if you notice the radio units always have a box car directly in front or behind that holds all the radio equipment the dpu units im not entirely sure about bit they are setup from factory to be used as dpu I think it just plug an play basically. I've always wondered what the differences in them were tho an hope to learn more

Please tell me you have more of this footage

@smgeisler

2 жыл бұрын

Sorry, I don't

They wasted so much equipment when they abandoned this line. What a terrible waste.

There is nothing more annoying than someone standing next to a camera taking pictures. Other than that nice video